Enviros are happy, but Africans worry about some plans for protecting the planet

“What is global warming?”, asks Samuel Mauthike, a small scale vegetable farmer in Kirinyaga, Kenya’s central province, as he crouches down compressing the moist soil around his green bean plants.

“Is it something caused by us in Africa?”

Good Lord. How do you read that lead from this BBC piece and not read on? The deal is that UK supermarket giant Tesco is pledging to cut by half the amount of goods imported by planes in an effort to cut carbon emissions and reduce global warming. It sounds like good news for the planet, but not so much for Kenya.